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Thank you, QuietHDD at least can run automatically.

I installed XP Pro on Acer Aspire1 AOD250, + all drivers from Acer website and now the HDD spins down after 5-10 seconds of inactivity and then spins back up after few seconds since XP keeps accesing the drive in the background all the time. Then again spin down in like 5-10 seconds of idle and the process repeats. I dual-boot with Ubuntu, under which there is no problem with the disk. I used free HD Tune 2.55 but it shows me no info except the temperature, and while on hd tune's website I found Drive power manager. Tried it, and I can prevent the disk to go to stanby - spindown. All is great until system restart and the problem is back. So it seems that windows keeps changing the HDD power management on boot-up and I have to use the Drive power manager every time as workaround. Is there any other way to manage HDD power management in XP. Registry keys maybe? The drive is WD3200BEKT.

You could try to integrate just SP3 then install it on virtual machine and see if windows update would give you that DST hotfix or not? I might try it later... There is also this post on MSFN.

There is no reason in that article, but I assume that you should do it before using nLite, because WMP11 installer for XP came out 1/15/2007? Just my lame guess... If you integrate SP3 and then integrate this "old" WMP11 you will be missing some hotfixes? The same thing like the initial post by doctorman. I thought maybe he was using older installation package of IE7 and that was the reason for getting the messages about newer files that in hotfix (IE7). Because I had in my archive the original IE7 installer when it was first released. But then I checked microsoft site and got the new one released the same day as SP3. Same filename, so it might be confusing. But he is apparently using the newest IE7 package, so I have no idea why it is telling him during IE7 install in nLite that the files on the media (already SP3) are newer that those in IE7 being processed. At least that's what I understood from his posts. EDIT: To answer doctorman's last question Ok, I had no idea what is direct integration and normal integration (noob here), but I looked it up and can confirm that in my \I386\SVCPACK\ folder there is only Ie7.ca_ file, no Ie7.exe That means it's directly integrated I guess.

Using nLite 1.4.6 But I don't like the WMP11 slipstreamer described in nLite web page FAQ section. That's why I used the one from the article I mentioned. That just integrates WMP11 to your install source files. And then you start nLite and integrate SP3, IE7 and more in ONE session. Those two articles helped me to clear up some questions I was not sure about and it might be helpful to you as well if you read it.

I just did this and had no problem. Do you use the most recent IE7 installer released on 5/6/2008? Get IE7 here. Get SP3 here. And first you integrate WMP11!!, then SP3 followed by IE7 and whatever else. I used this WMP11 integrator. Nice articles I followed are here>>> SP3 integration IE7 WMP11 Firefox